The Decorative Portico of a Spanish Mission Style Villa - Ballarat
This Spanish Mission style villa with its impressive canopied entrance may be found in the Victorian provincial city of Ballarat.
Built of red and brown bricks, this smart villa with its stuccoed wall treatment is far simpler than some of its older late Victorian or Federation Queen Anne style neighbours, extolling the clean lines of the Art Deco movement so popular across Britain and her dominions during the 1920s and 1930s. The overall design of the villa is very in keeping with the Spanish Mission Movement. The stuccoed wall treatment, ledged and boarded windows with their fan detailing and the decorative parapet over the entrance with its barley twist columns are typical features of Spanish Mission style architecture. However, decoration typical of the "Metroland" Art Deco period are present as well: most notably in the window design which features leadlight glass, rather than stained glass, in geometric patterns. This is also reflected in the arched front door.
The Spanish Mission style was typically a style that emerged in California during the interwar years and spread across the world.
This style of home was one that aspirational middle-class families in the 1920s sought. Cottage like in style, it represented the comfort and modernity that the burgeoning Australian middle-class wanted.
The Decorative Portico of a Spanish Mission Style Villa - Ballarat
This Spanish Mission style villa with its impressive canopied entrance may be found in the Victorian provincial city of Ballarat.
Built of red and brown bricks, this smart villa with its stuccoed wall treatment is far simpler than some of its older late Victorian or Federation Queen Anne style neighbours, extolling the clean lines of the Art Deco movement so popular across Britain and her dominions during the 1920s and 1930s. The overall design of the villa is very in keeping with the Spanish Mission Movement. The stuccoed wall treatment, ledged and boarded windows with their fan detailing and the decorative parapet over the entrance with its barley twist columns are typical features of Spanish Mission style architecture. However, decoration typical of the "Metroland" Art Deco period are present as well: most notably in the window design which features leadlight glass, rather than stained glass, in geometric patterns. This is also reflected in the arched front door.
The Spanish Mission style was typically a style that emerged in California during the interwar years and spread across the world.
This style of home was one that aspirational middle-class families in the 1920s sought. Cottage like in style, it represented the comfort and modernity that the burgeoning Australian middle-class wanted.